PA Voters - Thank You

[PatGund]

No matter if you voted for Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton, thank you for getting out there and voting.

I'm not going to pretend I'm not disappointed in the results - though such a close margin is nothing to sneeze at.

That being said, the supporters of both people did an amazing job out there.

So, from the state of Washington, this Obama supporter says thank you for getting out there doing your part.

[October]

1. NY Times has results on front page

http://nytimes.com/


Interesting numbers.

[happyslug]

2. Yes, except for Philadelphia County he did NOT win a traditional Democratic County.

Now, most such counties are in Southwestern PA, but my point is Obama's strength was in GOP leaning counties (Centre County is the closest thing to a "Democratic County" among the rest of the counties Obama won, but it is the seat of Penn State and all the conservative values that school represents. Centre is much more liberal than the counties that surround it, but it is still in the T.

Dauphin is another potential Democratic County, the City of Harrisburg is Democratic, but the county outside of Harrisburg is still solid GOP.

Now Obama did win Philadelphia Huge, he won about 2/3 of the votes in Philadelphia County, but Hillary won 80 % in Fayette County, 75% in Greene County, 55% in Allegheny County. This is worse then the 1980 Carter-Kennedy split of Pennsylvania during that primary. Kennedy won the Eastern counties, Carter won the Western Counties. You could almost draw a line down the middle of the state, that is how the vote split. Thus Hillary did better then Carter did in 1980, and Obama did worse then Kennedy did in 1980. Just an observation more then anything else (i.e. Hillary is NOT out of this race).